The best expensive Easter eggs - in pictures

The best expensive Easter eggs - in pictures

You can spend almost as much as you want on an Easter egg without buying something by Fabergé. Our most trusted chocolate experts including the Observer's restaurant critic Jay Rayner and Bob Granleese, food editor of Weekend magazine, generously gave their their considered opinions on eggs costing more than £20

WINNER! Chocolate Easter eggs over £20 category

Demarquette Easter egg clamAverage mark: 4.5/5£25, 300g (£8.33/100g) "What's a chocolate clam got to do with Easter?" mused one of our tasters before hastily adding "but I'm not complaining." Recording the highest average mark of any of the Easter chocolate products we tried, the thick shell "tastes as good as it looks" and contains "good sized, delicious caramel-filled chocolate eggs with a marbled pattern on the outside." Overall "a stonking product"

2nd place, Easter eggs over £20 category

paul.a.young sea salted caramel eggAverage mark: 3.75/5£19.95, 90g (£22.17/100g) OK, so this is in the over £20 category even though it costs 5p under the threshold, but it definitely belongs here. "Clever, tasty, teensy for the price (think two Cadbury's Creme Eggs) - and totally impractical" this egg comes with its own eggcup and china spoon and wowed our tasters. Inside the surprisingly tough shell there's "creamy, salty, buttery caramel" which is "is close to perfect, and if you can just ignore the price it's a total joy"

3rd place, Easter eggs over £20 category

Hotel Chocolat's The Eggsibitionist extra thick Easter eggAverage mark: 3/5£26, 390g (£6.67/100g) With its "proper thick milk chocolate and a good assortment inside" one taster felt this was "all that you would want an egg at the luxury end of the market to be." Opinion on the contents was divided, however, with another reporting "my small 'inner egg' was utterly foul" and a third finding "the raspberry one, in particular, is an acquired taste to put it mildly"

5th= place, Easter eggs over £20 category

Rococo hand painted dark chocolate eggAverage mark: 2/5£25, 160g (£6.41/100g) "The shell, which is made from different types of chocolate, is trying to do too much and as a result, not achieving very much at all. Overpriced and underwhelming"

7th place, Easter eggs over £20 category

Harrods milk couverture Easter laced egg with rabbitAverage mark: 1.75/5£29.95, 290g (£10.33/100g) "Much like the Harrods Food Hall in which it is sold: very pretty to look at, but the underlying product simply isn't very good. The lattice-work shell will make a terrible mess of your carpet"